Icons reunite: Alison Krauss, Robert Plant to perform two dates at Santa Fe Opera

Two icons are coming together – again.

Alison Krauss and Robert Plant are set to perform at the Santa Fe Opera on Aug. 28 and 29.

Tickets go on sale to Lensic members at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14. General public sale takes place at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 16, at lensic360.org.

Tickets will run $54-$189, plus fees.

The pair performed in Taos in 2023 and are returning.

According to Jamie Lenfestey, Lensic360 director, he wanted to bring the artists back.

“Robert loves New Mexico and wanted to come back and do this show specifically at the opera,” he says in a statement. “So it’s going to be pretty special.”

Opening will be JD McPherson.

In 2007, Plant and Krauss released “Raising Sand,” which was an unlikely, mesmerizing pairing of one of rock’s greatest frontmen with one of country music’s finest and most honored artists.

It was produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett and won six Grammy Awards, including both Album and Record of the Year.

After 14 years, the two icons reunited with “Raise the Roof,” which garnered three Grammy nominations.

With “Raise the Roof,” Plant and Krauss were determined not to simply replicate a formula.

“We wanted it to move,” says Krauss. “We brought other people in, other personalities within the band and coming back together again in the studio brought a new intimacy to the harmonies.”

The duo’s intention had always been to continue the momentum of” Raising Sand.”

“There was so much enthusiasm, excitement and adrenaline that it would have been folly if we didn’t keep going,” says Plant. “We did join up and consider songs, try to work out some ideas, but then somebody would ask if I’d want to take my band to the Arctic Circle — ‘OK, I’ll do that, call you back, Alison!’ And then she goes off and gets another Grammy. We’ve both constantly made new recordings.”